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Medina de Rioseco

Located in Valladolid, Castille and León Coordinates: 41°51′53″ N 5°00′00″ W

Map showing the location of Medina de Rioseco Medina de Rioseco
Location in Spain
Population
4,967
5K
Elevation
752 m
above sea level
Local time
UTC+01:00
Europe/Madrid · UTC+01:00
Places inside
3
listed under Medina de Rioseco
When to go
May–JuneSeptember
See the climate
Airports
VLL Valladolid Airport21 km
LEN León Airport97 km

About Medina de Rioseco

Medina de Rioseco is a municipality. Location: Valladolid, Castille and León. Population: 4,967. Elevation: 752 m.

From Wikipedia

Medina de Rioseco is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León and Spain. According to a 2011 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 4,967 inhabitants. The city also has the nicknames the "City of the Admirals" and "Old India Girl." It has an area of 115.43 square kilometres (44.6 sq mi), with a population density of 43.0 inhabitants per square kilometre (111/sq mi). It is a municipality of Tierra de Campos. The Sequillo river passes nearby.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

At a glance

Area
115 km²
Official website
medinaderioseco.org

Source: Wikidata

Travel notes for Medina de Rioseco

From Wikivoyage

Castile and León (Spanish: Castilla y León) is a region of Central Spain, named for its many medieval castles. It's on a plateau and is bordered to the north by coastal Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia, east by Madrid and Castile-La Mancha, south by Extremadura, and west by Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro in northern Portugal.

Understand+

"Lors feras chastiaus en Espaigne / E avras joie de neient / Tant con tu iras foleiant"

"Thou shalt make castles than in Spaine, / And dreame of joy / all but in vaine"

"Roman de la Rose" was written in the 13th century, and translated into English by Chaucer among others. It was wildly popular, as in medieval times it was the closest they got to romantic fiction. To this day, to "build castles in Spain" is the French equivalent of "build castles in the air", to engage in idle fantasy. It was mostly for the ease of a rhyme that the story picked Spain (where the rain falls mainly on the plain) but there were real knights and even more armchair warriors who dreamed of setting themselves up here, especially in the little kingdom named for its castles.

Meseta Central is an extensive plateau at around 700-1000 m altitude, boxed in by mountain ranges that force the drainage west to the Atlantic, swelling into the river Duero / Douro. It's reasonably fertile, so it was mostly for agricultural produce that the Romans moved in from 218 BC, then they heard about the gold and other valuable metals. The gold mines of Médulas funded Rome the way the Americas later funded the Spanish Empire at its zenith. The aqueduct at Segovia is the Romans' best-known work here, and they built walls around several cities, maintained in later ages.

Get in+

By plane:

Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD IATA) is usually the best airport for reaching this region, for its wide range of flights and good onward transport. Several buses for Castile and Leon start from this airport.

Castile-León itself has only small airports, at Valladolid (VLL IATA), León (LEN IATA), Salamanca (SLM IATA) and Burgos (RGS IATA). Typically these link to Spanish holiday islands such as Mallorca or the Canaries. Some have flights from Barcelona (with connections across Europe), but not from Madrid which is too close to fly.

By train:

High-speed trains fan out from Madrid Chamartín to all the main cities, continuing to Ourense, Vigo and Portugal. Slower trains start from Madrid Principio Pio, eg to Ávila. One daily train is direct from Barcelona via Zaragoza to Burgos and Valladolid.

From France the shortest route is via Hendaye and Irun. From there trains run to Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid or León.

By bus:

Alsa is the main inter-city bus line, plying from Madrid Estación Sur ("south station") and stopping at Moncloa interchange in the northwest suburbs. Some buses start from Madrid Airport.

Source: Wikivoyage · CC BY-SA 4.0 · abridged

Places bordering Medina de Rioseco

  • Valverde de Campos
  • Palazuelo de Vedija
  • Moral de la Reina
  • Villanueva de San Mancio
  • Tamariz de Campos
  • Montealegre de Campos
  • Valdenebro de los Valles
  • Castromonte
  • Valladolid
  • Belmonte de Campos

Population of Medina de Rioseco over time

Population of Medina de Rioseco over time
2014 4,906
2015 4,821
2016 4,803
2017 4,770
2018 4,716
2019 4,647
2020 4,606
2021 4,550
2022 4,493
2023 4,483
2024 4,537
2025 4,617

Censuses and official estimates; source: Wikidata.

Climate of Medina de Rioseco

Best months for sightseeing

Best months for sightseeing: May–June, September.

This month · November

Outside the best season

Day 12° · Night 3° · Rain 49 mm

Hottest month
July (day 29°)
Coldest month
January (night 0°)
Wettest month
December (54 mm)
Driest month
August (17 mm)

Bars: average monthly low and high temperature. Below: precipitation. Monthly averages for 1970–2000 at about 18 km resolution, adjusted for elevation. Highlighted months are mild and relatively dry. Source: WorldClim 2.1 (CC BY 4.0).

Show values as a table
Climate of Medina de Rioseco
Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Average high (°C)8°11°14°16°19°25°29°29°25°18°12°9°
Average low (°C)0°1°2°4°7°11°14°13°11°7°3°1°
Precipitation (mm)453530425340191725454954

Other places to visit in this season: May June September

How to get to Medina de Rioseco

The nearest airport is Valladolid Airport (VLL), 21 km to the southeast as the crow flies. The nearest large city is Valladolid, 33 km to the southeast.

Airports

  • Valladolid Airport (VLL) Valladolid 21 kmsoutheast
  • León Airport (LEN) La Virgen del Camino 97 kmnorthwest
  • Salamanca Airport (SLM) Salamanca 110 kmsouthwest

Nearby large cities

  • Valladolid Population: 300.6K 33 kmsoutheast
  • León Population: 124.8K 94 kmnorthwest
  • Salamanca Population: 144.8K 114 kmsouthwest
  • Burgos Population: 176.4K 120 kmnortheast
  • Oviedo Population: 220K 180 kmnorth

Straight-line distances; road distances are longer. Airport data: OurAirports.

Places in Medina de Rioseco

3 places
  1. 1 Medina de Ríoseco 5.1K

Bar: population relative to the most populous place in this list.

Cities & villages1

Heritage & sights1

Nearby attractions & nature

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Sources & licences

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